Description of problem: After setting up a brand new install of smokeping on F16, the web interface reports errors creating directories and files under /var/lib/smokeping/images, but only if smokeping is installed before httpd. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): smokeping-2.4.2-16.fc16.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start with a fresh F16 install without httpd, OR: yum remove httpd userdel apache 2. yum install smokeping 3. yum install httpd 4. systemctl start httpd.service 5. systemctl start smokeping.service 6. Visit http://localhost/smokeping/sm.cgi and click on Fedora Actual results: Installing : smokeping-2.4.2-16.fc16.noarch 52/52 warning: user apache does not exist - using root Then when visiting the website and clicking on Fedora: Software error: ERROR: creating /var/lib/smokeping/images/Ping: No such file or directory For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root@localhost), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. # ls -l /var/lib/smokeping/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 22 2012 images drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Sep 5 22:39 rrd [root@t /]# ls -l /var/lib/smokeping/images total 0 Expected results: Require httpd to be installed first, so the apache user exists before smokeping is installed. Additional info:
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smokeping-2.6.8-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/smokeping-2.6.8-1.fc18
smokeping-2.6.8-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/smokeping-2.6.8-1.fc17
smokeping-2.4.2-17.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/smokeping-2.4.2-17.fc16
Package smokeping-2.4.2-17.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing smokeping-2.4.2-17.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-13411/smokeping-2.4.2-17.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
smokeping-2.4.2-17.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
smokeping-2.6.8-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
smokeping-2.6.8-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.